Rohingya Muslims: what is happening in Myanmar?

Listen… Those are gunshots. And
these are people’s homes on fire in a village in northern Rakhine.
Filmed on Wednesday by a Burmese Human Rights Activist from a group we
know and trust. The footage has just reached us. The Myanmar military
calls these clearance operations, in their hunt for what they say are
extremist Muslim terrorists. In reality it is a scorched earth
policy that is driving tens of thousands of Rohingya from their
homes. They have lived segregated from their
Buddhist neighbours for decades and denied basic rights, apartheid in
all but name. Now they are on the run. Stateless and friendless and
scared. As the Muslim world celebrates Eid al-Adha, the Rohingya are
sacrificing their sons, their daughters, their mothers
and fathers. TRANSLATION: Vigilantes, soldiers and police surrounded our
village. They started shooting at the villagers, men, women, children, even at
infants. They didn’t spare anyone. These are the survivors.
We have to protect their identities. TRANSLATION: Around 300 people died.
55 people were injured. Many small children went missing. They cut the
breasts off some women. The villagers say the military
fired rockets into the homes to set them ablaze.
TRANSLATION: We lost our husbands,
our children, our babies. Some of us managed to escape through the rice
fields and reached here. Those that remained in the village were killed.
They burned the dead bodies, they burned the village Mullah alive. Sittwe is the Rakhine state capital, the Burmese Buddhists’ front line Here are mosques lying in ruin, boarded up, overgrown, no Friday
prayers. We have journalist visas, but needed government permission to go to the conflict area. We spent hours
traipsing from office to office. We were told an answer would take a week to come
through. No journalist has reached north Rakhine to report
independently. Eventually we got in to see a top state official. Muslim
terrorists were trying to set up an Islamic State in his country, he
said. There is no Rohingya in our country,
in our history. No Rohingya. Who are they?
Maybe they are from the people who came from the foreign
country… Foreigners, they haven’t any identity.
But they’ve been here for many generations?
Right but they don’t have an identity.
1.1 million Rohingya don’t have identity because the
government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi denies them all citizenship. Hi, I’m Jonathan. What is your name? On the condition we took a goon with us, the
government official had finally given us permission to go to one of 13 camps
in Sittwe where 140,000 Rohingya have been held under armed guard for five
years, but we got away long enough to meet a Rohingya contact. Kamal is 20. He taught him English via YouTube on a smartphone and, on the same smartphone, he showed me pictures just sent by friends further north. They were all of dead people. It has been five years since we are living here in the camps.
You can’t move? You can’t get out? No.
No-one is safe here, he told me. It is worse since
Aung Sang Suu Kyi came to power. If it was Aung Sang Suu Kyi sitting
here, what would you say to her? I would say: please stop the war. I would say, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, we are not
extremists, from Bangladesh, and we are not also illegal immigrants
from Bangladesh, we are the citizens of this country and we have history,
about Rohingya. As I left the government official
headquarters, he handed me a book, a different version of reality, which
dismissed Muslims as Begalis, interlopers in a Buddhist land. Well this is the book, and in it, the term Rohingya is referred to in inverted commas throughout Whole chapters are devoted to
discussion as to what it calls the R word. The term Rohingya, it says, has no
basis in fact, or in history. It is a political construct based on a myth.
The Rohingya, in other words, don’t exist. They are non-people, and it is
beginning to look like the Aung Sang Suu Kyi regime wants to get rid of
them once and for all. Under armed guard, some journalists were allowed
into the conflict area on a government tour. They witnessed
burnt villages and some of the 12,000 Myanmar citizens evacuated by the military to
protect them from Rohingya insurgents. But this new conflict is a
very lopsided war. And as ever, the victims are mostly civilians.
40,000 Rohingya have now fled into Bangladesh. Some have not made it
alive. Many, many, tens of thousands more have been displaced within Rakhine and it’s likely that the numbers killed will inexorably rise.

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No one will help the rohinga they have nothing to offer no natural resources, oil ,gas minerals or any form of economic power, in the other hand mayanmar has loads of untapped natural resources. The economy is opening up to the west and global trade. Everybody wants a peice of the pie so let's not upset the gangsters that are running the country. Quite simple. The west will never intervien unless there is something in it for them.

What's happening in Myanmar, is concentrated upheaval of our Buddhist traditions & values, which have always been threatened since many decades, by pig-$#!+ worshippers, who know nothing about family planning & breed like street pigs, in dozens.If Saudi Arabia wants its 100% of population be Sunni (not even a slightest shia or ibadi fraction), then Myanmar is also equally commited to totalitariate Buddhism in its territories. Whoever cares for these pigs, PLEASE TAKE THESE PLAGUE VIRUSES TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRY. MYANMAR DON'T GIVE A FUCK ! ☸ = 🇲🇲

Hey y that happening stop that n let the muslims go to pakistan n india n bd n plz dont kill them coz it really hurts n as a human we must helpe them n if u dont wont them is ur contry let them go to another contry . N if u r agree like n comment . As a human dont let this happen .share this on insa n fb n whtsapp . If u r human u will stop this n .if any one can do some thing u must do …they need help.

I don't care what other people say or think!!!! I only have one understanding if a person kills any human either Jew, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or what ever religion, he is not human himself. Brutality isn't the quality which can be found in humans. No rocket science, animals, so stop using religious divisions to justify Animalistic humans.

Yeeaah so where hell are all the rest of the Muslim countries? I dont hear shit from any of these Muslim countries offering safe sanctuaries or openly inviting their FELLOW MUSLIMS into their own Muslim countries…so are they expecting to immigrant to Europe again like those previous batches of Muslim immigrants?!

Do we really need Religion to be a good Human? Killing all the innocent people in the name of Buddha, Allah,Jesus and Shiva… is unacceptable.! Did one of those preached to hate and kill your next one's? What is wrong with you people nowadays?The world is getting closer and smaller…all of us are living in the same earth…why the hell we can't make some arrangements and live in peace? Is it so hard to love your next one's? To all those greedy ones on the top: pls give education, food and a home for our next generation…don't feed them with hatred and religious bullshit. Please think twice before your actions. 🙏❤️✌️to all the species who live in this wonderful earth. Hold it with love …feed it with love.

If any Islamic as well as any European country is raising question in this regard then I have 1 question to all of them ,are they accept this Rohingya community in their country and if yes then please do it immediately.

Part of the problem is that people try to relate to other people by using their own morals, ethics and religion. The first step is to realize that nothing you think matters to them !! People that think they can rationalize or compromise with Muslims are 100% wrong and all they have to do is look at the last 1400 years. You cannot be passive with Muslims, or even accept one little bit of their culture. NONE

So you have people just pop up illegally, breed, reach 1.1 million in numbers and they are the victims. Of course it's sad but Muslims do this wherever they go. They don't assimilate, they try to overtake. Are you seriously accusing someone for fighting to preserve their identity and way of life? Brits and Americans of all people who have done far, far worse? NATO has been killing children for so long now. Some people really, really have no shame or no brain.

You can habitat them in some island, no country is willing to take them, best is settle them in some island, UN knows so many vacant beautiful islands in the world, they can till the land, cultivate it beautiful crops and live peacefully, bangladesh is filled with 3 lacs rohingyas now and india is also fighting with 20 lacs bangladeshis living from the past 50 years now in the north east india is full of bangladeshi muslims who were immigrants and now they say they are the bosses…now they have constituency, their own men as minsiters, so you have to settle them in some island….India and bangladesh in deep trouble due to these immigrants…

if muslims were in majority what would they do?wherever Islam is there's trouble,same world over.same in old Yugoslavia and many other places.islam is more than a 'religion',it's political,repressive,backward and a way of life-all for a very questionable belief by an illiterate Shepherd.

Myanmar is doing the right thing. Rohingyas are illegal muslim immigrants from Bengal. Like muslims elsewhere, they tried to establish islamic rule in Rakhine state which myanmar obviously did not tolerate. Have the western media ever reported about the exodus of Hindu pandits from kashmir or about the chakmas from Bangladesh. Tolerance & secularism doesnot mean muslim appeasement.

What are you supposed to do with a group of people that show up uninvited to your country, then start using terrorism to force their beliefs on others? Just sit back and take it? Or do you just wait for them to blow up children, then pretend its only the ones that planted the bomb that are a problem?

Muslims see no problem with terrorism and murder, except when they get a response to it, then its like the world is ending, and they whine to the world for help. They did it to themselves, so sorry, no sympathy here.

Funny how everyone says the news is biased towards Islam yet EVERY MOTHERFUCKER seems to hate Muslims on the internet… The irony is, the hate and indiscrimination people seem to have for all Muslims is EXACTLY like the ideology of groups like Isis who believe everyone who doesn't adhere to strict Islamic beliefs (western Muslims included) deserve death… people are dumb

Where was the outcry when Muslims cleansed Christians, Jews or Yazidis from Syria or Iraq ? This is not an-eye-for-an-eye, no one people should be wiped out for their identity, race, or religion. However, 1) this was not a new war, it has been happening for a long time, but the West ignored it in the past 2) Rohingya are illegal-aliens, not Burmese because Burma never gave them citizenship. 3) ASSK's government inherited this problem, but she is not even fully in control of her own government, 4) Western Liberal Media is biased.

as a Muslim i know for a fact Buddha did not teach this and this was not the message he lived to send, and i do not hate Buddhists, i hate people who kill innocent people. period. religion and race doesn't matter, and it shouldn't. stop being so ignorant.

Shame on humanity shame on United nation people are dying in Mianmar .throwing baby in the fire in front of His mother And then raping the mother while the baby is burning in the middle of fire soldiers start fucking the baby‘s mother OMG 😮 and then United nation talking about ethnic cleansing and Mianmar denying the ethnic cleansing let’s wait for United nation to fix the issue of humanity they will come and hunt you and me too When is your time and my time they know how to show us to humanity as a piece of garbageAnyway lots of different ideas For powers to tag you as a bad person either is your color your religion your nationality….don’t let anything separate You from your neighbor.lest sticks together Easier to Brick They separate humanity with the color, religion, nationality …to break them easier Separate them and govern them easierIf it’s something telling you are different than your neighbor this is the voice of devil Jesus said love your enemy Love your neighbor as you love yourselfQuran said stay to gather in the name of God and don’t let them to separate youStay to gather in the name of Love and compassion

Rohingya are from Bengal, they are not Burmese. Rohingya started Buddhist genocide, over 30K dead, so the Bhuddists had enough and told the terrorist Rohingya to go away. Bengal doesn't want the violent pedophile followers, Burma doesn't want the violent pedophile followers. Wake up world, this is all part of the plight, if you don't pay attention you will be given a choice to convert or die very soon. Did you do any research about the violent murders by the Rohingya that pissed of the natives?

It's funny how when Muslims are the victim all the libatards come out in droves.When they are the bad guy libatards say nothing.Islam is by far the worst abuser of human rights .I hope this becomes a world wide tactic to cure the muslim problems everywhere!

i thought cambodia were corrupted. corrupted but at least, our government is very open to every religions and supporting LGBTQ community. my parents are buddist, my aunt's family is christian, and i'm atheist, but we managed to live harmoniously together just fine. Not bad after all

Burma is not a Muslim state and does not want Muslim incursion. Who can blame them? Muslims..not Buddhist have proven that they can not live with other people. I do not condone violence against women or children or rape.

This is ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING and soooo VERY VERY SAD !!! WHY can’t people just break bread together !! and LIVE in PEACE !! My late father once said to me, when I was just 11 years old … ( WHERE there is RELIGION there will always be WARS ) that was in the EARLY 1960s !! and STILL people have ( NOT EVOLVED ) GET out OF the DARK AGES… find KINDNESS in your HEARTS… FIND YOUR HEARTS !!!

Rohingya muslim are doing good in supporting Kashmir issue after they were settled their…. instead of thanking us Indian, they are actively supporting to rip apart out own country…then what kind of human rights for this people… I don't understand….

U guys are literally saying in the comments that is ok to kill humans yes they had a bad past but that was a long time aga other religions are also doing some bad things like killing but no matter what everyone is human

I am Sri Lankan.. In our country..Muslim is threat to our non-muslim(Buddhist, Christian & Tamil)..What they are doing is, they come to any country secretly and get residence there..While time passing, Their population grows very fast.. They are very peaceful until they get 50% of the country..After we can see their peacefulness…huh..Don't look at them kindly..If we are kind , but never they are..They want spread their religion on world..that's what they want..They want whole world to be muslim…Very Selfish… In our country, We are very brotherly with Christians and Tamils…because muslims want to kill us…